bjoernw

Great, I too can see myself coming back looking for new music. One thing: I had to think about 5 seconds to figure the "More Obscure" part out. Maybe I'm just slow but the word choice didn't make it obvious to me right away.

Design-wise I would just like to see the box with the controls and I'm ready to look further below for the "about" and "team" things. The bottom part seems a little crowded right now.

For now just lock the phone with the top button during every call. The antenna seems to be a much bigger issue and possibly even a hardware problem whereas the proximity sensor issue sounds like a calibration problem.

www.23andme.com

since when does trading volume suggests special sauce? you can buy and sell 100 million shares a day and only trade 20 stocks.

Thanks for your post. I about to graduate college and am already in a 5th year program working on my MBA. I subscribe to the hacker lifestyle even though I don't program and I really value this community. It's sad to see educated people make logic defying statements like: I can't think of an MBA who started one of Silicon Valleys innovative companies, hence MBA's can't start innovative companies.

I would have preferred "DasPad" though

Even actually good events need to offer something to get students to come out - at least in colder climates.

I don't understand your point. My point is that American students subsidized my education and there is no easy way for me to stay and repay society. Either through taxes, donations to charities in my local community, or job creation.

Germany might have similar policies but I think that's besides the point I'm trying to make about policy in America.

It might be worth looking at all the foreign students that the U.S. attracts. I was born in Germany, did 2 years of high school in the U.S. and am about to finish college here, too.

I got a big scholarship ($20k per year), which is subsidized by American students. The U.S. educated me, gave me $80,000 and now there is no easy way for me to stay and contribute to society (taxes?)?

I agree with the author but I hope this bill will at least get people thinking about the screwed up immigration policy in this country.

I wonder where the problem that engineers have with business people comes from. Is it because on average business people get paid more than developers even though it is easier to measure the contribution of developers? I would really like to know.

What I got out of your post is that the journey matters, not each individual app. If someone strives to make 400 apps that will make $400/month he will learn a ton along the way and be forced not to fall in love with one idea. When people fall in love with an idea they stop trying other things.

Using this approach you can reflect on all the different little projects you worked on and then pick out different ones where getting the $1/day was easier than for others.

Advisors use brokerage accounts at places like Schwab, which give both you and the advisor access to the account.

And brokers are not investment advisors. They are in the business of selling stuff to you. So if you are saying don't give money to brokers to manage then I agree :). When you hire an advisor you agree on a strategy beforehand and the advisor makes trades to keep certain averages in your account. This industry is pretty regulated and advisors know they are liable if they divert from an agreed-upon strategy.

If someone promises to beat the market for you, don't hire them. Go with someone who applies academic theory. I spent last summer interning with a firm in Maryland. I learned a ton about the academics behind it and am writing my senior thesis on portfolio theory right now. He takes clients by referral only but here is his Web site: http://www.marylandcapitaladvisors.com with lots of interesting articles.

that's terrible advice. An investment advisor needs to know about your overall wealth to tailor a strategy to your situation. And 5 million is not that much. Managing 5 million or 10 million is pretty much the same amount of work. It actually gets easier when you're dealing with bigger sums because some bonds only trade in larger amounts.

The problem with working in Gold or other commodities is that you can only prove a correlation based on past performance. Stocks and bonds on the other hand are inherently negatively correlated because of what they are. Gold is a highly volatile commodity and there is no guarantee that it will continue to be a useful inflation hedge.

I understand people's fear of having other people in charge of your money but maintaining a portfolio and keeping allocations at a certain level (like 30% stocks, 70% bonds) on a daily basis requires some help. Some investment advisors manage many portfolios and can therefore buy bonds in larger quantities at better prices.

Saying that you shouldn't hire a professional to create a suitable strategy for you and maintain your wealth doesn't sound right.

Ethics and compliance is a huge topic in bigger companies for a good reason. Cool hip web start-ups shouldn't forget that it applies to them as well and giving a 17yr old some ethics training before letting him write on a blog that makes and breaks businesses seems logical.

What's their business model?

knock yourself out :)

I took all the information from this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1089829

Here is a Google Doc with all the info from this thread. Feel free to add yourself.

https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASrV38bNy1TlZHhqNjlmel8xM...

P.S. I'm looking for a marketing internship :)

Are there companies here who are looking for marketing interns that embody the hacking lifestyle?

I'm getting my MBA for free right now because I had a good enough average in undergrad. Hearing about all this MBA bashing I'm kind of worried people will make assumptions about me before even meeting me. I am applying to many start-ups for internships. hm

I'm actually on twitter every day monitoring people talk about needing sponsorship or receiving sponsorship from companies. I then suggest they check out this site in a non-spammy way. I pan on selling text ad space at some point.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm not crazy about the name/domain either. I'll try and think of something. In terms of making money I was thinking one text ad at the beginning of every email.

It might be worth asking viewers to share with everyone what they learned or what they disagree on (backed by a counter argument). We are a bunch that likes to learn from other people's opinions and engage in interesting discussions.

Whenever I introduce someone to HN I make sure to lay down the rules of the land first and when I come across comments like the ones below I usually try to engage them more rather than vote them down.

How about we suggest some features instead of pointing out that similar sites exist?

I would like to see better explanations on how to fix some of the problems on a site. Right now it mostly links to wikipedia in the help section.

As a German learning to write in English I had to constantly remind myself to keep my sentences short :)

I could see this technology being useful in windows but laptops?